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There's a shitload of product placement in Netflix and (particularly) Amazon original content. They're still telling you what to buy, you just don't notice it as much.

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I still prefer to watch Frank Underwood telling me how good Monument Valley is than having my show stop and sit in front of old fashioned ads.

At least ads are honest and you can tune out.

Product Placement is like a landmine, I'm watching the show when they spring an ad out of the blue and kill any semblance of suspension of disbelief.

Anytime I notice an overtly blatant product placement (e.g. 3 second shot of a logo), I feel like I discovered a mole (as in double agent).

There's a certain feeling of "Gotcha! I still got it. Can't full me, Diet Coke".

Also good shows and movies do not do this. Never once noticed product placement in The Wire or Breaking Bad, Pontiac Aztec notwithstanding.

Depends a lot on implementation. My example: Netflix at the beginning of shows sometimes says something to the tune of "contains product placement". Several times now once gotten to the end and notice that it didn't stand out to me. It makes me suspicious, was it there all along and I just got advertised to without noticing it? Was it not there this episode? Am I becoming complacent and not noticing product placement as much as I used to?

I really wondered about his political acumen and general well-being when he insisted that PS Vita had "all the games."

Although that example wasn't actually an ad. It was the writer's idea to put that in.

Details: https://www.polygon.com/2015/3/13/8210581/monument-valley-ho...

This might be true but I much prefer product placement which doesn't interfere with the show than having the show be interrupted to see an ad.

True that. I'm considering cutting off netflix and going back to torrenting as the "no ads" mantra only means "no explicit ads" it seems.

i.e : Gypsy first episode was filled with Channel perfume branding. NO -f'ing- GO

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